Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
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Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
emblematic ideas to take forward could include: * resilient and diverse communities as essential foundations; * the value of trust in government and civic institutions; * recognising the agility and capability latent within the public sector; * and the enormous value of inefficiency and redundancy in systems; * an understanding that there are essen... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Too often today, the only narratives that matter are personal ones, and many have seen a widening gulf between their individual hopes and dreams and those of the world around them. Too often, as well, people feel like powerless observers of forces and trends they cannot control. The rekindling of social imagination is one aspect of taking back cont
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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“The ultimate question that I have: how can we create cities that are big enough to give people economic opportunity, but small enough to give people love and others in their lives that touch their hearts?”